Benefits cap 'encouraging work'
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The impending introduction of the Government's cap on benefits is already driving claimants to find jobs, Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has said.More on benefits
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The impending introduction of the Government's cap on benefits is already driving claimants to find jobs, Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has said.
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Ian duncan smith useless twit as a leader looks that smug an arrogant cut the poor back even more cut their benefits starve them back to work ,but i want my MP wages my expense account my second home my subsidiesed meals an drink an my flashy car to run me here an their all payed by you the tax payer .Who is screwing the country MR Smith ?.
July 18 2012 at 6:58 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyMany of the jobs advertised nowadays are not long term with prospects. A family member of mine finally got a job after years waiting, she had two jobs in three months being made redundant each time. There is nothing that can be done for someone who is used like this , unless you are employed for over 12 months. You can't get a morgage or take out a long term rental without a long term job. Plus your benefits stop as soon as you take it, you then become a new claimant and be worse off. That is why people are not willing to take work, other benefits like help with rent cease. Housing benefit in my area is capped to £450 per month, average rents are £650 per month. Also anyone who lives in a house owned by the council or private landlord who gets housing benefit has to give up their house if they have too many rooms. This government want to take away housing benefits from under 25 year olds,mindblowing eh. Parents with a baby must share their bed, and live in one bedroom accomodation, inpractical.
Some who comment on this have no idea what is happening, they believe everything they are told. What will all this mean, cooked employment figures as many are forced to find short time work. They then disappear from the unemployed list.. wow what a improvement huh.
How about a Part - Time Job during the Olympics, with G4S.
Many have voted with their feet, and not turned up.
The cap is not in force yet ! who writes this claptrap ? lol
July 17 2012 at 6:28 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyDuncan Smith saying let people find jobs is like Marie Antoinette saying let them eat cake. 99% of jobs advertised are earmarked for people already known to the interviewer and workin within the organisation. An external candidate no matter how well experienced and qualified stands absolutely no chance of getting the job because it has been rigged in favour of the freind or family member of the interviewer. This is known as jo rigging and it is very widespread in Britain. You might go to a job interview and think that you were the best candidate, scoring the highest on the psycometric tests, having the most qualifications and experience, and yet you didn't getthe job. Now you know why , it was rigged for someone less qualifed and experienced that knew the interviewer. The government keep this hushed up and will not do anything about it because they and their children benefit from this system. If you ask for a list of all the candidates and their qualifications and experience and psycometric scores under the freedom of information act to prove that you were the best candidate you will not be given them and a cover up takes place. It is not what you know, it is who you know.
July 17 2012 at 5:54 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAs I am writing this there is a link off to the side with the headline 'Warning of long-term jobless crisis'. Clearly there aren't any jobs, well many jobs out there and it's also clear that this government have directly brought about a lot of that unemployment by cutting public sector jobs by the truck load. Yes savings need to be made and unemployed people who can work should work, but it seems like a completely hypocrytical position for the government to take by forcing thousands, actually by recent estimates it must be around a million people out of work and then trying to claim that joblessness is their own fault for being too lazy.
There's also another link off to the side today which says 'Working culture 'harming managers' which is a story about how 1 in 5 managers suffer from depression and stress and they feel like they can't admit to having problems or take time off work because their employers take a dim view of their staff being unwell and taking time off work. So basically we have a reality where people in work are being put under more and more pressure and if they get sick and can't work their bosses will most likely fire them. Then if they are still too ill to work and try and claim incapacity benefit, they will be assessed by ATOS and be found fit for work and they will be put on jobseekers allowance and called a lazy scrounger and generally maligned for being a drain on all the good hard working people of the UK.
I've got news for you, the government only claims to represent taxpayers because the majority of people work and pay tax (and rightly so) but the government want the majority of people to vote for them, so they cater to the taxpayer. I wonder how it would be if the majority was unemployed? That would be funny watching politicians bowing and scraping to unemployed people... but would they, or would they find the majority group among the unemployed and then try and turn them against other minority groups among the unemployed?
That is what has been happening for years now, just in another form.
Duncan Smith should gain some experiance and live off benefits for 3 months, if you get high rate care, high rate mobillity allowence with long term incapacity benefit it it still around £12,800 about half of the £25,000 cap, and this is the top end of the scale in disabled benefits, most people get much much less, why doesn't he start telling the truth and say its the greedy property owners who are milking the housing benefit system.
July 16 2012 at 8:37 PM Report abuse Permalink +6 rate up rate down ReplyIdiot Duncan - Smith along with his fellow Millionaire Posh - Boy Muppet's must truly believe that Jobs grow effortless upon Tree's.
I only hope the next time any members of this Coalition farce brigade walks under a Tree, a Lumberjack falls on their head.
GOOD!!! Lazy buggers
July 16 2012 at 8:21 PM Report abuse Permalink -6 rate up rate down Replyanother 1 been brainwashed by moron & co
July 17 2012 at 3:08 AM Report abuse Permalink +4 rate up rate down ReplyStrange how according to people like you we get far more lazy people at exactly the same time that we get less employment and more immigration but as soon as the number of jobs go up the level of laziness goes down. How peculiar!!!
July 17 2012 at 4:42 AM Report abuse Permalink +2 rate up rate down ReplyAre they having a laugh? theres no work for people to do, theres no jobs! YOU NEED JOBS to get people off benefits, paper rounds dont pay the bills! the government needs to put the tax money back into our ECONOMY and not the EU, gets business.jobs going again, schools and education, NHS etc .. its a laugh, they cant make people live off less than what they get now, so how are they going to do it? waste more money on ''job schemes'' and ''job courses'' on how to write a letter or a CV? i mean what an insult! No way this government will get voted back in.
July 16 2012 at 7:33 PM Report abuse Permalink +7 rate up rate down Reply26,000 is the cap how much do you earm muppet
July 16 2012 at 7:39 PM Report abuse Permalink -4 rate up rate down Reply
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